In one of Apostle Michael Orokpo messages, he shares how he got into a quarrel with his wife barely three months into marriage:
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After we got married, three months later, we had a little quarrel.
I told myself “What! This lady that saw me, and was relating with me as an Apostle is now having a quarrel and arguing with me?”
I went back to understand what was going on. I kept on asking myself “like she’s arguing with me? A whole Apostle of Jesus Christ?, just after three months?”
My God! I was ranting. “Do you know me? Me that can lock myself up without talking to anyone for three months. Do you know me? You will suffer here o”
In the evening, I sat down and saw her walking towards me. I pretended to be reading something. She came to where I was and knelt down and apologized.
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It looked like I was the devil. I now discovered that I was more carnal than her. I felt so like a demon. I became ashamed. From that day, I tried to avoid every problem, until I manage this carnality. I discovered ego was high in me. Nobody taught me that I was full of ego. I saw it myself.
You are not a man because you boss around. The person who says sorry is stronger. Because the way Jesus showed strength was to die. I learnt something that I didn’t read in any book. I’ve read a lot of books, it wasn’t there. So God began to teach me.
– Apostle Michael Orokpo Messages